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Find definitions and at least one example of the following poetic devices. No Copy and paste. Use your own words!
Hyperbole- Hyperbole is an obvious exggeration of something. Iwaited for you for a million years.
Alliteration- Alliteration is a group of words that starts with the same letter in a row. Rabbits running ober roses.
Rhythm & Rhyme- Rhyme is verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines. Rhythm is movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent.
Rain before seven;Clear by eleven.
Metaphor- A metaphor compares two things without the words like or as. Metaphors are used to illustrate a concept by comparing it to something less abstract. My brother is the fresh, untouched powder that was protected from the flame.
Analogy- Analogy is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
Personification- Personaification is adding a human quality to a non-human object. The sun smiles at the sleeping flowers.
Allusion- Allusion is a brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional. "Oh, stop being such a Romeo."
Euphemism- An euphemism is the substitution of an inoffensive term. Euphemism for FAT: chubby, plump, big-boned, chunky, fluffy
Imagery- Imagery is the use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas. Her blue eyes were as bright as the Sun, blue as the sky, but soft as silk.
Malapropism- Malapropism is the misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar. He had to use a fire distinguisher.
Onomatopoeia- Onomatopeoia is the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. bang! click! buzz!
Oxymoron- An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side. sweet and sour
Satire- Satire is a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit. "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift.
Simile- Simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared, often used with the word like or as. Your smile is like the sunshine.
Symbol- Symbol is something that represents or stands for something else. In the story " The portable phonograph", the phonograph is the symbol.
Theme- Theme is the idea of the poem, they big idea of what the poem is about. The theme of the poem " sleep" is mainly about death.
Find definitions and at least one example of the following poetic devices. No Copy and paste. Use your own words!
Hyperbole- Hyperbole is an obvious exggeration of something.
I waited for you for a million years.
Alliteration- Alliteration is a group of words that starts with the same letter in a row.
Rabbits running ober roses.
Rhythm & Rhyme- Rhyme is verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines. Rhythm is movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent.
Rain before seven;Clear by eleven.
Metaphor- A metaphor compares two things without the words like or as. Metaphors are used to illustrate a concept by comparing it to something less abstract.
My brother is the fresh, untouched powder that
was protected from the flame.
Analogy- Analogy is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Personification- Personaification is adding a human quality to a non-human object.
The sun smiles at the sleeping flowers.
Allusion- Allusion is a brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional.
"Oh, stop being such a Romeo."
Euphemism- An euphemism is the substitution of an inoffensive term.
Euphemism for FAT:
chubby, plump, big-boned, chunky, fluffy
Imagery- Imagery is the use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
Her blue eyes were as bright as the Sun, blue as the sky, but soft as silk.
Malapropism- Malapropism is the misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar.
He had to use a fire distinguisher.
Onomatopoeia- Onomatopeoia is the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
bang! click! buzz!
Oxymoron- An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
sweet and sour
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift.
Simile- Simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared, often used with the word like or as.
Your smile is like the sunshine.
Symbol- Symbol is something that represents or stands for something else.
In the story " The portable phonograph", the phonograph is the symbol.
Theme- Theme is the idea of the poem, they big idea of what the poem is about.
The theme of the poem " sleep" is mainly about death.